(Part of Giant Kelp at the exit to the North Pacific Ocean from the Tokyo Bay)Over and Over Again
Paraguay is one of the countries that joined the first FIFA World Cup Matches held in Uruguay in 1930, that is, 80 years ago.
This year in South Africa, the Paraguay's national team has advanced to a quarterfinal match for the first time by beating Japan in the penalty-kick shoot-out after a 120-minute fight.
Paraguay made the day for competing with Japan, namely yesterday, an ad hoc national holiday so that all the citizens could watch the match. Eventually, one woman shouted after the game, "Japan was tough, but Indian bloods won!"
In Japan, all the media are still praising the efforts by Japanese players broadcast live last night into early this morning.
SECTION I: Who Export and Import in China?
Foreign affiliated businesses account for more than 50% as a share of companies in China that are engaged in export from China or import to China.
(http://www.meti.go.jp/report/tsuhaku2010/2010honbun_p/2010_02-2-5.pdf)
Many American makers, like so many Japanese corporations, have established their affiliated companies in China who export goods to the American market in a large scale.
If labor costs in China are raised fairly high or the yuan is appraised higher, those American companies would withdraw their operation in China and relocate factories from China to other developing countries.
So, unemployment in the U.S. is unlikely to be improved in this scenario.
Yet, it must be fair to raise salary of Chinese workers and reevaluate the yuan.
In addition, China outwardly talks tough about an underlying trend of withdrawal of foreign businesses from the Chinese industrial sector. One Chinese media site proudly asserts that the era for China to invite Japanese and foreign companies by offering cheap labor, cheap lands, and preferential taxation systems is gone; the era of quality rather than quantity has come to China in welcoming foreign financed companies.
(http://j.peopledaily.com.cn/94476/6638756.html)
And, one thing sure is that China likes the DPJ more than the LDP of Japan, and the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party of the U.S.
Japan and America, as G2, have to consult with each other on China.
SECTION II: 2014 World Cup Soccer
I wrote a few weeks ago that the Japan's national football team would fight four matches to win two in South Africa.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062902508.html
It is because a card with the following picture printed on I had prepared more than a year ago suddenly fell from a display board onto the table where my PCs are placed.
As this picture looks nice, though the samurai does not wield a sword on the horse, I had put it on the display board months ago.
*** *** *** ***
Last night I saw something in my dream at night.
It was not a soccer match between Japan vs. Paraguay.
And then, I heard a grave voice after some dreams, good and bad.
Anyway, I am not directly in charge of the Japan's national soccer squad, intending to make Paraguayans so happy.
There are more important, critical, and attractive things in Japan than one victory in the World Cup soccer event.
And, there are more religious challenges in the world, where I am not supposed to miss shootings, since money makes pious people suffer so much all over the world.
(http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/metal/580/bbking.html
BB King was born on September 16,1925 in a small cabin near the town of Itta Bena. He was named Riley B. King...
Now that he was a DJ, Riley needed a catchy name. He started out as the "Beale Street Blues Boy," later he changed it to "Blues Boy King," and finally shortened it to the now famous "B.B. King."...
Someone might say that "EEE" stands for the East End of the Earth; others say it is simply a sarcastic expression againt the so-called "e-boom.")
Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Joh 6:30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
Joh 6:31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Joh 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
Joh 6:33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.